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Location (UK): Home based – North East Scotland
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer on our profile page
Travel: Frequent travel to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to support clinic work, regular travel across Scotland for meetings and event delivery, occasional travel to other parts of the UK.

Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

Summary
We are recruiting for our award-winning Young People and Families Service. This role will lead the delivery of our participatory, self-management UK arts programme, alongside our team of amazing young volunteers. You’ll organise and curate an annual exhibition to raise awareness of the impact of rheumatic conditions on young people and their families. And you’ll help to deliver our one-to-one youth work embedded in the multidisciplinary team at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

About the role
We are looking for dynamic, creative, innovative team players to join our Young People and Families Service in Scotland. The role will be based in North East Scotland but will support service delivery across Scotland and the UK.

As a Young People & Families Worker you will work with colleagues, partners, healthcare professionals, schools, volunteers, families and most importantly young people to co-plan, deliver and evaluate a high-quality, holistic support offer locally and nationally. Using a community development/youth work approach, you’ll put children and young people at the centre of decisions about their journey and our service offer.

Using youth accessible approaches, you will help young people to build their confidence, make friends and achieve their personal goals. This will be achieved by providing one-to-one support, creating peer networks and working with volunteers to co-deliver self-management activities on a variety of topics from sleep management to self-advocacy. You’ll also co-design an exciting programme of social events, youth voice opportunities, digital content and residential events.

You will act as the bridge between young people, their families and professionals – especially in healthcare settings. Here you will play a unique role working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to meet a range of needs in a relatable and youth-friendly style as young people learn to live well with their condition. You will support young people during the pivotal transition from paediatric to adult services and life, ensuring it is a time of empowerment and growth.

Key requirements
Essential:

• Experience of working within the fields of youth/community development work, especially within the arts as a subject expert.
• Understanding the importance of self-management and experience of delivering interventions to people living with long term conditions - especially arts-based interventions. Experience of taking a person-centred approach when providing support, with a passion for improving the lives of young people.
• Experience of using a community development/youth work approach to co-design and deliver a quality service/project that is inclusive, inspiring and makes a difference. Engaging colleagues, funders, supporters and partners to make it happen.
• Knowledge and experience of embedding safeguarding and safe working policies and procedures.
• Experience of leading a project with project management skills including; supporting evaluation work, writing reports, developing project proposals, managing activity budgets and cascading learning and development to a team of staff/volunteers.
• Experience of working directly with artists and curators. Translating artistic plans into reality, as well as knowledge of contemporary visual art practice, culture, networks, curation and social engagement approaches.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and evidence of excellent relationship management with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Good IT skills; thorough working knowledge of MS Office Suite especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and digital working skills, including experience of using databases.
• Experience of workload planning including event management, especially within the arts, including experience of exhibition delivery. Sound organisational and time-management skills and the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
• Understanding of the importance of diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
• Willingness to travel across the UK as required to attend meetings and events, which may occasionally be on a weekend.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and understanding of arthritis and other musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions.
• Understanding of the ‘Social model of disability.’
• Experience of using /delivering over virtual communication platforms; Microsoft Teams, Zoom, etc.
• Degree or related qualification in the arts.
• Good understanding of the social, health, emotional, economic impacts of the arts and arts based self-management.

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of the advertised date.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Interviews
First interviews: Dates to be confirmed, held on Microsoft Teams.

Advocate - Relevant Person’s Paid Representative

Hybrid working: with travel around Nottinghamshire

Job reference: 80

Contract type: Permanent

Full time and part time positions available: up to 37 hours, 5 days per week working Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Salary: £18,720 to £20,000 FTE per annum (dependent on experience)

Benefits:

- 25 days annual leave

- Cash Wellbeing Healthcare Plan Cover

- Death in service benefit

- Option to buy up to 5 days annual leave

- Discretionary shut down days at Christmas

- 1 Community Leave Day per annum

- Bike to work scheme

We have a number of Relevant Person’s Paid Representative positions in our Nottingham team working on our Advocacy contract on either a full-time or part-time basis.

The ideal candidates will be supporting a wide range of vulnerable adults often with profound and multiple needs, so experience of this type of work, along with a good working knowledge of public and voluntary organisations is essential.

You will have strong experience working with vulnerable adults who are affected by significant health and social care issues who find it difficult to speak up for themselves; and experience providing persuasive verbal and written representations.

We are looking for a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options and taking action as directed by them. Our ideal candidate will have worked in advocacy, information and advice or similar role before, ideally in a health, social care or voluntary setting and will have experience of working with vulnerable adults.

You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information whilst able to work well independently and confidently on behalf of others. Strong communication skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate.

Because of the nature and location of the role, applicants must live within the area; have a full driver’s licence and access to their own transport. Travel expenses will only be paid once in the Nottingham area border

As a minimum you should have:

• Experience of working with vulnerable adults
• Experience of working with people with a range of impairments or disturbances of the mind or brain such as, but not limited to:
• Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
• Learning disability
• Mental health
• Acquired brain injury
• Serious physical illness
• Substance misuse
• Ability to form positive boundaried working relationships with a wide range of clients with a range of communication and other needs
• Ability to work with people who have complex needs, including challenging behaviour
• Ability to manage a complex caseload
• Excellent communications skills, able to communicate sensitively and empathetically
• Good personal planning and organisational skills
• Good IT skills
• An effective team player
• Flexible positive approach Willingness to travel as required by the role or POhWER.
• Willingness to undertake relevant training and a commitment to managing your own continued professional develop through a variety of means

Ideally you will also have:

• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and other relevant legislation such as The Mental Health Act 2007, The Care Act 2014 and The Human Rights Act 1998
• Knowledge of Safeguarding Adults procedures
• Experience of working within the voluntary and or health and social care sectors
• Experience of working within an advocacy organisation
• Knowledge of Health & Social Care services
• Experience of 24hr care homes residential and nursing
• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DoLS amendments 2009
• Knowledge of the Human Rights Act (i.e. Articles 5 & 8)
• Knowledge of the Care Act 2014
• Up-to-date knowledge of relevant case law
• Qualifications:

o 301-304 NAQ Core Units

How to apply

We’re keen to get Advocate’s started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Please submit your CV and cover letter (cover letter no longer than 1 side of A4) before the application deadline. In your cover letter please include what hours of work you are interested in, your reasons for applying for the role, how you meet the person specification criteria, if you hold a current driving licence and have access to your own vehicle and your notice period.

Please submit your CV and cover letter quoting reference 80.

Closing date: 8th July 2022

Interviews: TBC

For an informal discussion please contact Katrina Wand, Community Manager.

We are looking to recruit people who share our core values and can demonstrate that they apply and live those values in their daily working practice.

A DBS check will be required for this post.

POhWER is an equal opportunities employer, holder of the Investors in People Silver award and a member of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER scheme. We are a member of the Positive about Disability scheme and disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

UK Youth has a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and enthusiastic Senior Instructor to join our Outdoor Learning team.

What is the role

As a Senior outdoor learning instructor, you will be part of our delivery team with responsibility for delivering our activities along with leading the team, supervising department resources and activity areas, mentoring and developing junior staff, supporting the day-to-day running of the department, and diligently meeting Health & Safety legislation and departmental SOP’s.

School residentials form a core part of our term time delivery but across the year we work with a wide variety of groups and adapt our delivery to support their specific needs. Part of your role will be in developing these programmes along with ensuring training is in place for the delivery team to enable them to offer high quality sessions which meet the needs of the groups.

You will also play a pivotal role in the success of our apprenticeship programme running your own cohort. This involves working with the rest of the team along with our apprenticeship provider to support the young people as they work their way through the scheme and become new instructors.

Who we are looking for

Essential to hold a valid first aid certificate and the following professional qualifications:

• Archery GB instructor
• BC Coach Award or minimum BC Paddle sport Instructor

At least one of the following off ground qualifications:

• RCI Assessed
• CWI Assessed (Abseil desirable)
• ERCA Traditional Instructor + ERCA Generic Rescue

And one of the following:

• A nationally recognised walking/navigation qualification
• A nationally recognised Mountain Biking qualification
• A recognised environmental qualification

- Have previous experience of working in an outdoor centre for a minimum of 24 months

- Experience of delivering ambitious standards of customer care

- A general knowledge of Health and Safety relating to an outdoor learning environment

- A basic understanding of safeguarding and data protection within the context of an Outdoor Learning setting

What we can offer you

Salary: £25,033 p/a

Hours: 37.5 hours a week average

Onsite single room accommodation is also available in a shared lodge at £35pw

We also offer a competitive range of benefits:

• A personalised development programme including internal and external courses and qualifications 
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
• Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to four times your salary
• Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
• CycleScheme & TechScheme

How to apply

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system (provided by Applied)

• Closing date for applications will be Friday 22nd July at 12 noon

• Interviews are due to take place between the 1st and 3rd of August

As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks, which include criminal record check and employment reference.

As part of the recruitment process, UK Youth will be gathering and uses certain information about you. For further information regarding this, please review our Data Protection Privacy Notice which explains what data of yours we process and how we use it.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Individual Giving Manager to join our ambitious Supporter Marketing Team, who are responsible for generating around £1.5m in income a year through recruiting new donors and building relationships with existing donors, including legacies.  This role will require the successful candidate to have overall responsibility for the operational delivery of the Individual Giving strategy, using proven fundraising techniques across print and digital to grow and diversify our programme, engaging with both new and existing audiences to support our work with children with brain injury and neurodisability.

You'll plan, manage and deliver innovative and impactful supporter campaigns across a range of channels. With the ability to resolve everyday challenges and obstacles, you will deliver and drive forward a range of Direct Marketing fundraising campaigns through the full creative process, from briefing to concept, through to final delivery, as well as reviewing results and making recommendations. You will also be responsible for developing and implementing legacy marketing plans, utilising channels including direct marketing, digital and events.

The ideal candidate will have proven working knowledge of direct marketing and fundraising principles and practice, with the ability to use this knowledge to engage with supporters. Experience of delivering an income and expenditure target, project management or managing complex programmes of work and of creative development and proven success in donor development and/or acquisition campaigns is essential for this role. You will also possess the skills to lead a diverse team and build excellent working relationships.

Hybrid working available.

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, in order for your application to be considered.  As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and will be further explored during the interview process.

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service. 

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton and Epsom.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, adoption pay, time off for fertility treatment, enhanced paternity leave, paid carers leave, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms, time off for gender reassignment, and much more. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include: free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Coulsdon South train station to Tadworth Court; subsidised cafeteria; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an environment that is as unusual in its beautiful historic nature, as it is unique in its state-of-the-art facilities.

The Children’s Trust is fully committed to protecting children and young people.  All posts at The Children's Trust are subject to an enhanced DBS check.  If you are applying to The Children's Trust, and are already registered with the DBS update service, this will speed up the recruitment process significantly. 

The Children’s Trust has a duty of care to minimise the risk of all infectious diseases to the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable children and young people in our care, as well as our employees and volunteers. As a result, we require staff to provide a valid NHS Covid Pass (or proof of Covid vaccinations or medical exemption) for all roles at Tadworth Court and in the Brain Injury Community Service. We also expect staff to have taken or be willing to take relevant immunisations required by the role to protect them against infectious diseases, (unless you are medically exempt).

At The Children’s Trust we recognise how important it is to have leadership that reflects the children, young people and families that we support. We also recognise that staff, comprised of a range of skills, backgrounds and experiences will help us to better understand the needs of those we support, and how we can best represent their interests. We, therefore, particularly welcome applications from disabled people, individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds and those from other under-represented groups. The Children’s Trust is committed to achieving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across all levels of the organisation. 

TLG Wakefield is a working partnership between TLG and All Saints Normanton, a church-based education centre offering a safe and nurturing place for young people to learn. We are looking for an experienced Teacher with a passion to support young people experiencing educational crisis.

At TLG, young people are valued, cared for and their potential is championed. We’re passionate about seeing young people return to mainstream school, progress on to college or find work because of the support we provide. As Classroom Teacher, you will play an integral part in enabling young people to get their lives back on track, through delivering innovative programmes and working with the Head of Centre, other supporting staff, and committed volunteers to ensure that the Education Centre achieves success.

The role involves assistance with the planning and delivery of lessons, leading sessions as timetabled and providing one-to-one support as appropriate to bring excellence to the young people’s learning experience. You will also act as a link between TLG’s students, their families and the church community.

TLG is a Christian charity and as a team, we want to bring our faith to the work we do; as such, we are recruiting an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The date of interviews is to be confirmed.

Secure & Complex Services Advocate (Peripatetic)

Home Based: with travel around Leeds

Job reference: 62

Contract type: Permanent

Full-time: 37 hours, 5 days per week working Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Salary: £21,715.00 to £23,292.00 per annum (dependent on experience)

Benefits:

- 25 days annual leave

- Cash Wellbeing Healthcare Plan Cover

- Death in service benefit

- Option to buy up to 5 days annual leave

- Discretionary shut down days at Christmas

- 1 Community Leave Day per annum

- Bike to work scheme

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Secure & Complex Services Advocate (Peripatetic) to join our team working on our Advocacy contract in the Leeds area.

The successful candidate will be supporting a wide range of vulnerable adults often with profound and multiple needs, therefore you will have demonstrable experience of this type of work, along with a good working knowledge of public and voluntary organisations and will have worked in advocacy, information and advice or similar role before, ideally in a health, social care or voluntary setting.

You will have robust experience working with vulnerable adults who are affected by significant health and social care issues who find it difficult to speak up for themselves; and evident experience providing persuasive verbal and written representations.

You will be a confident positive team player, able to work in partnership with clients and professionals, gaining an understanding of their issues by listening, exploring options and taking action as directed by them. You will need to have a flexible attitude and must be comfortable handling highly sensitive information whilst able to work well independently and confidently on behalf of others. Strong communication skills and time management skills will be required and you will need to be computer literate.

Because of the nature and location of the role, applicants must live within the area; have a full driver’s licence and access to their own transport.

As a minimum you should have:

• Ability to form positive boundaried working relationships with a wide range of clients
• Ability to support clients who may have a range of particular communication and other needs
• Ability to manage a complex caseload covering a wide range of subjects
• Ability to research options to ensure clients can make an informed choice
• Excellent communications skills, able to communicate sensitively and empathetically
• Ability to communicate effectively with professionals and other organisations
• Manage risk to self and others
• Good personal planning and organisational skills.
• Good IT skills
• An effective team player
• Flexible positive approach

Ideally you will also have:

• Knowledge of good advocacy practice
• Knowledge of public and third sector organisations and processes
• Completed National Advocacy Qualification
• Experience of working with people with different needs

How to apply

We’re keen to get an Advocate started in this role. If you think this sounds like the ideal job for you, please apply as soon as possible as we may close this job advert early if we receive a high number of applications.

Please submit your CV and cover letter (cover letter no longer than 1 side of A4) before the application deadline. In your cover letter please include your reasons for applying for the role, how you meet the person specification criteria, if you hold a current driving license and have access to your own vehicle and your notice period.

Please submit your CV and cover letter quoting reference 62.

Closing date: 30th June 2022

Interviews: TBC

For an informal discussion please contact Chloe Stokes, Community Manager.

We are looking to recruit people who share our core values and can demonstrate that they apply and live those values in their daily working practice.

A DBS check will be required for this post.

POhWER is an equal opportunities employer, holder of the Investors in People Silver award and a member of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER scheme. We are a member of the Positive about Disability scheme and disabled applicants who meet all the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.